Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
1352 Gregory Street
Augusta, AR 72006
United States
Job description
Must be 18 years or older. The company may conduct criminal background checks. Three months experience needed in mechanical diggers, sorting and grading sweet potatoes. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Clearing ground of rocks, sticks & roots by hand, clear brush and trees with chain saw. General Field & fence maintenance. Use wood to build and repair boxes for digger. Manually weeding fields by hand or using hand tools. May drive tractor while pulling mechanical transplanter and implements including: hipper disk, dual, chisel plow, bush hog and any other equipment related to cultivating, harvesting, crops. Participate in irrigation activities. Set up, operate, and repair irrigation systems. Drain water from fields with hand tools and shovel when needed. The workers may use or operate the following tools and equipment: Skid loader, digger, forklift, nail gun, power washer, drill, hoes, shovels, sickle cutter. -All tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to workers. Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. May clean potato shed/Storage, warehouse. Workers may be asked to do welding and torch work when needed. Harvesting Sweet Potatoes: Use of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. May harvest sweet potatoes by hand with use of buckets. Must be able to sort, grade & pack potatoes by size quality or type. Load and unload boxes on trucks trailers or sweet potatoes harvesters. Repair, maintain and clean all hand tools and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Build or repair barns, or potato shed. Workers may be asked to operate tractor, pulling mechanical digger. May also operate skid loader to load and unload trucks and trailers. * Safety training for use of farm equipment and tractors will be provided. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery must be able to communicate with and adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show proficiency to effectively communicate with management, and may therefore place other employees’ safety in risk.
Special Requirements
Workers may be offered more than the standard hours of work in a single workday. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Hours of work may increase/decrease depending on crop yield and or weather and can occur at anytime throughout the season. The lifting requirement is 5-60 lbs. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach and lift. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should expect periods of little/no work. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditio